This World Mental Health Day the folks at Healthista asked me if I’d be interviewed talking about what it’s like to live with ‘schizophrenia’. This was a strange request as one of the things I’m most vocal about is that the language of mental illness is part of what stripped me of my autonomy and I have since moved away from this way of seeing my issues.
Still, on speaking with the journalist and making sure they were OK with me talking about this perspective, I was glad to share some of my experiences with an online health magazine that had no reason to think there was any controversy around the label. It’s part of opening up more human conversations about those experiences that get labelled as ‘mental illness’.
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